Vol. 15 :: No. 06
Mar. 21 - Apr. 3, 1998

India's National Magazine
From the publishers of THE HINDU

Highlights Table of Contents


Cover Story

Assuming power
Smooth transition
Editorial
BJP: Contradictions and compromises
Interview: Sunder Singh Bhandari
Interview: Ramakrishna Hegde
Analysing the BJP's performance
Power struggles in Congress(I)
Analysing the Sonia effect
Interview: Sharad Pawar
Retreat of the U.F.
The TDP's role
Interview: A.B. Bardhan
Interview: Mulayam Singh Yadav

Livelihood Issues

Case of Indian and Pakistani fishermen
Freedom at last
A tale of two villages
Legal angle

Jain Hawala Case
Diaries as evidence

Elections '98
The Assembly round
     Gujarat
     Himachal Pradesh
     The Northeastern States
Messages from the States
     Maharashtra
     Uttar Pradesh
     Tamil Nadu
     Bihar
     Assam
     Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur &
       Mizoram
     Andhra Pradesh
     Madhya Pradesh
     Kerala
     West Bengal
     Delhi
     Rajasthan
     Karnataka
     Orissa
     Punjab
     Haryana

World Affairs
Iraq: U.S. forced to retreat
An activist U.N.
British belligerence
Palestine: 50 years of injustice
Kim Dae Jung's promising start
North Korea waits
Trial of strength in Cambodia
Interview: Hun Sen

Theatre
Mahatma vs Gandhi

Medicine
Interview: Prof. Maria Antonia Ron
Vaccine for leprosy
Questions of priority

Science
The wireless dispute
Bose and radio telescopes
A chronology of events

Telecommunications
TRAI's ruling

Power Project
Cogentrix and some questions

Environment
Protecting the Basel Ban

International Law
In the pursuit of justice

Special Feature: Southern Railway
Tracks to the future
Big strides in signalling
Interview with General Manager
Thrust on gauge conversion

Tamil Nadu
Of polls and predictions
Coimbatore: On the bombers' trail

Sri Lanka
Battling terror

Education
A unique protest in Maharashtra

Kashmir
Elections: Changing mood
Army for hot pursuit

Columns
A.G. Noorani:
Elections and money power
E.M.S. Namboodiripad:
Ideological choices
Praful Bidwai:
BJP's uncertain future
Jayati Ghosh:
Draft 9th Five-Year Plan

Also
World in Brief
South Asia Round-up
Books
Letters
The English Language
Update

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